May

May is typically our time to recover from the chaotic months prior. This month was definately not as chaotic as March and April, but still had a few events to keep us from getting lazy and into a routine :-)

We started the month with what I thought was just a teething fever, until Griffin woke up from his nap with a temp of 105.5. As I think most moms who aren't medically inclined would do, I flipped out! That's REALLY high! So I called the Dr. up here by our house because our pediatrician is an hour away, and they said either go to the ER or go in and hope their dr. could treat him. Of course, I went to the Dr. because who wants to pay for the ER if you can help it? He looked at him, saw no other symptoms and just said," it must be the stupid virus that's going around.... He'll have a high fever for about a week, and probably you shouldn't take him out so we can stop the virus from spreading more." a few hours later (after hours, so I couldn't call the dr. back) his fever got to 106.7! ACK! Anyway, the nurse said as long as Tylenol keeps it down we're ok to let it get that high. So that was that, we were on house arrest for a week. It lasted 6 days before the fever was gone, then 2 days after that of non-stop uncontrollable crying... like ready to throw him out the window crying! That's a long time to be sleep deprived and have cranky kids! Luckilly we all survived with no injury :-) I took the kids to school the following Monday, Extatic to have a break, and when I picked them up, Deegan had a fever of 104.... Here we go again! It was the EXACT same story, 1 week later. That was about all of the drama for May, but it was a long 2 weeks!!!

Once we were all better, Deegan and I decided to build a sand table on one of the Saturdays that Adam was working...

we had lots of fun!

The boys love to ride in the basket...

"Maybe we should get something so you don't have to ride together..."

"Hmm, that's better!"

:-)

I LOVE this kid!

Memorial Weekend we went to my In-laws for Sunday afternoon and night, then over to my parents for a family BBQ on Monday.

Movie time at Grandma's

Dirty Shirts= Laundry time!

Deegan was SO excited to put up the flag! For those of you who didn't know or have forgotten, he has a thing for flags...

He really likes them!

Then we went to Jorgensen's for our BBQ, and we were having SO much fun that I didn't take any pictures :-)

My mom and dad had just gotten home from a long trip to Hawaii, so they brought back some fun things (Shirts, and jewelry!) for all of us!  I'll post pics of all of the boy's fun shirts when I get a chance to take some!

April

Here's my quick update for April... almost caught up- One more month! :-)

March and April are always SUPER busy months. We have 6 family birthdays in March, 4 in April, including mine and Griff's, and Easter, which makes for a lot of family get togethers!

Easter:

Easter Egg Hunt #1 (with Powell Fam)

Easter Egg Hunt #2 (with Jorgensen Fam)

Easter Egg Hunt #3 (By ourselves Easter day)

 

Too much Easter Egg hunting!

Pickles to keep the kids from going out and finding the eggs before everyone else

Another pickle addict... I can't afford this!! I better have a girl next time so we can stop the pickle madness at our house and have some girly food instead! :-)

Lucky for me, Deegan likes cookies too! ... and cookie dough! And yes, I love to share it with him... I ate raw cookie dough tons of times and I'm still alive!

And last but not least, Griffin turned 1! My dad took all the pics, so I still need to get them and then I will post them. We took balloons to school for his birthday and the kids had a blast playing with them!

March

Yep. I know it's almost June, but since I haven't posted since Feb, I need to back up to March. I have decided that I am going to try and just post 1 or 2 pics every few days, then the task is less daunting! For now though, I'll get caught up first in a quick, very shortened version of our lives.....

Gardner Village

Apparently the Recycle basket and Toy basket do NOT belong together in the same corner... 

 These boys LOVE to be together! (90% of the time anyway)...

... And it sure makes for a happy mom to see them play together...

...and relax together...

...and go Couch Diving...!

Boys will be Boys I guess

:-)

Also in March, Griffin started taking his first steps! (Note so I can remember because otherwise, I wont!)

My little Loves

Amist the chaos of getting ready for work on Valentines Day morning, I decided to make a cute little valentine of my boys to put on Facebook.... Here's how it went: "Here Deeg put this shirt on, I want to take your picture for Grandmas and Grandpas" D:"No, I don't want a shirt on" K: (Struggling to put shirt on) "Ok just let me take one cute picture... sit here on the floor and hold Griff" D: "I don't want sit on the floor! That's making me sick!" K: "Fine we'll just take it on the bed... say Cheese!... Say OOGA BOOGA... SAY TRACTORS... UGH Look at me!"

Love you all!

We have fun together!

Treehouse Museum

The Sword in the Stone... Guess I'm not Knight Worthy.

Deegan tried SO hard, again and again!

Chief Griff

Sick day. What better way to watch a movie but in the comfort of a storage tub!?

Just like Daddy

Learning to get around... and get stuck.

Tumbling class

Running the obstacle course

Griffin even gets to join in on the fun!

Brotherly Love! Chillin on the entryway floor.

The favorite thing to do when dad gets home from work!

Bath Time!!

Deegan decided he needed to open up the piggy bank and buy this super oversized "Concrete Mixer" yesterday. He is in HEAVEN and of course had to sleep with it! I'm not sure this pictue even does the size justice! it's so big. My first comment at the store was "We can't fit that in our house!" Oh well, guess we'll have to! It is pretty cool, it actually works and you can turn it to "mix", or turn the other way for whatever you put in to come out of the slide thing (I'm sure there's a technical name, and Deegan probably knows it, but I don't, so "slide thing" it is).

  

Before and After

Griffin got his Helmet off the Wednesday before Christmas. I knew going in to the appointment that it was probably our last, or maybe one more, but I went in and the Dr. said. "He looks great", did 2 little measurements and said "Here's your trophy" as he handed me the helmet. I almost didn't know what to do because I still wasn't really expecting him to be done! I asked him, "That's it? He doesn't need it at all anymore? Do we need to come back sometime or anything??". "Nope! You're good to go!" he told me. I left feeling a little lost like I didn't know what to do! :-) Griffin on the other hand was SO excited to not be wearing it. He would rub his head and hair like "Ahhhh! I missed you head!" :-) The Dr. told me that he changed much quicker than most kids do and we must have caught it at just the right time. He only wore the helmet for 8 and a half weeks and they expected 3 months at least! Anyway- Here are the Before and After pics.

BEFORE:

AFTER